Preparations had been completed some time ago. I left Eleris’s place with plenty of time to spare, and was carrying the dress with me in a garment bag. 0

I had already changed my hair color to silver like the last time. While facial expressions were important, so was changing my hair color.0

Thanks to the painstaking efforts of Eleris and myself, I bore very little resemblance to my original self.0

“Ah, um. Ahem.”0

Another important thing: my voice. 0

I had changed it to an ambiguous tone that was neither overly feminine nor masculine. It was possible that someone could recognize me just by hearing my voice.0

It was quite sad that I had to take all these detailed precautions—including making myself look somewhat like Reinhart but not exactly, and changing my voice to this ambiguous tone—just to make sure I wasn’t caught. If this wasn’t a cross-dressing contest, I could have just transformed into a completely different person.0

‘It would have been better to have entered Miss Temple…’1

With the last bit of insurance in place, though there was no further reason to hesitate. All that remained was to return to the Temple in time for the start of the cross-dressing contest. However, if I returned exactly on time, who knew what might happen? Participants had to show up earlier to the competition to prepare.0

I waited in Eleris’s semi-basement room to pass the time before finally emerging back out to the Aligar shopping district, wearing casual clothing. Obviously I wasn’t in the Temple uniform, nor was I wearing women’s clothing. So far, I had only changed the way I looked with makeup, and the shape of my body slightly.0

‘Wait… doesn’t that mean I’ve basically changed everything about myself?’1

Worried...0